You are assigned to care for a patient with chronic low back pain. What adjustment in pain management do you expect to make?
a. Encouraging the patient to hold off taking a pain drug as long as possible to reduce the potential for addiction.
b. Relying on patient report of pain rather than on changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and pulse rate.
c. Keeping the environment as quiet as possible to avoid distracting or irritating the patient.
d. Using nondrug measures in place of analgesics to relieve the patient's pain.
ANS: B
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